January 2024 – ntdln

Weekly Links 01.22–01.28

The Stanley Water Bottle Craze, Explained (kottke.org)
Cooked (kottke.org) — “add cooked.wiki/ in front of a recipe URL and it’ll show just the recipe”
Happy 40th Birthday, Macintosh (via kottke.org)
Winners of the 12th Annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest (kottke.org)
Where Do We Go From Here? (CSS { In Real Life })
Automated weekly links posts with raindrop.io and Eleventy (localghost, via Piccalilli)
Piccalilli Links (Piccalilli)
Low-tech Eleventy Categories (Piccalilli)
Knowledge Management for the win (Jeffrey Zeldman)
Weeknotes 24:03 (Jeff Bridgforth)
The origin of my online handle (Jeff Bridgforth)
Blogging and me (Jeff Bridgforth)
Play at work (Dave Rupert)
One big, one little (Dave Rupert)
The time to unmaintainable is very low (Dave Rupert)
What Can a Website Do? (Dave Rupert)
Users first then do teams (Dave Rupert)
How to create your own search API for a static website with JavaScript and PHP (Go Make Things)
How to create your own search API for a static website with JavaScript and PHP (part 2) (Go Make Things)
How to create your own search API for a static website with JavaScript and PHP (part 3) (Go Make Things)
You Should Take More Breaks During Work. Here’s How to Make Time for Yourself. (Wirecutter)
What You Can Do Today to Revitalize Your Productivity (Wirecutter)
It’s Probably Time to Replace These 17 Household Essentials (Wirecutter)

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Weekly Links 01.15–01.21

How Lego builds a new Lego set (The Verge)
The Verge’s favorite tools to stay organized (The Verge)
You Should Try Running, According to Me, Your Friend Who Won’t Shut Up About Running (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, via kottke.org)
What If The Bear, But a Commercial for Coke? (kottke.org)
Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons’ Sixteenth Birthday (Flickr Foundation, via kottke.org)
The Winners of the Nature Photography Contest (kottke.org)
Polygon Picks: accessories to improve your home office and desk (Polygon)
How to read more books as an adult (Polygon)
A Native viewer on Killers of the Flower Moon’s most life-changing scene (Polygon)
Five things. (Airbag Industries)
In My Opinion… (Chris Coyier)
How and Why to Write One Sentence A Day (Day One Blog, Phoebe Kranefuss)
A new look to this site (Jeff Bridgforth)
Remembering Hardboiled Web Design (Jeff Bridgforth)
Basic accessibility mistakes I often see in audits (Go Make Things)
How to keep up (Go Make Things)
The decline of React (Go Make Things)
WobblyBox, a web component for wobbly boxes (Dave Rupert)
‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’ (Daring Fireball)
Tim Bray: ‘Mourning Google’ (Daring Fireball)

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Weekly Links 01.08–01.14

How Google perfected the web (The Verge)
The 25 Best Films of 2023: A Video Countdown (kottke.org)
Footsteps in the Snow (kottke.org)
The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (Gastro Obscura, via kottke.org)
The Truth About Airplane Safety (kottke.org)
The Clever Engineering Trick That Allows Simple Rice Cookers to Perfectly Cook Rice (kottke.org)
The Stunning Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Contest (kottke.org)
The SUPERs (kottke.org)
How the NHL’s first Winter Classic overcame many hurdles (ESPN)
Review: Foursquare 15 Year Old Private Cask Selection – Nickolls & Perks 225th Anniversary (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: Camikara 12 Year Old (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: Hamilton 151 Overproof (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Own Your Web – Issue 6: The Year of the Personal Website
Quotes from moving house (Dave Rupert)
Accessible Fart Machines (Dave Rupert)
Trying to be the ideal American family with a small fridge (Dave Rupert)
Ecosia (Dave Rupert) — A search engine that plants trees.
MDX with Web Components Part II (Dave Rupert)
Stitch images together with Stitchy (Dave Rupert)
Not a collector, but… (Dave Rupert)
Giving Yourself Stakes (Chris Coyier)
Exposed RSS (Chris Coyier)
Up Ahead Lets You Track the Important Things in Life (The Sweet Setup)
‘Trump Has Taken Presidential Immunity to Its Illogical Extreme’ (Daring Fireball)
The Mom and Son Sitting in Front of the Blown Out Window on Alaska Flight 1282 (Daring Fireball)
Weeknotes 24:02 (Jeff Bridgforth)

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Weekly Links 01.01–01.07

We should get a new Muppet Christmas Carol-type movie every year (Polygon)
Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris (Polygon) — And someone else beat it a few days later (via kottke.org)
10 best Windows PC games from 2023 (The Verge)
The best PlayStation games from 2023 (The Verge)
Watch the Newly Remastered Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988) on YouTube (kottke.org)
An Octopus vs an Underwater Maze (kottke.org)
The Best Book Cover Designs of 2023 (kottke.org)
The Best Movie Posters of 2023 (kottke.org)
Galerie — A new kind of film club from Wes Anderson (via kottke.org)
My Recent Media Diet, the End of 2023 Edition (kottke.org)
How to Build a Small Solar Power System (via kottke.org)
Tom Scott Stops Making Weekly Videos After 10 Years (kottke.org)
Regulate: Warren G × Kenny G (kottke.org)
The 150 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (Rolling Stone, via kottke.org)
My Touch ID button is fully deconstructed (Jason Snell, Six Colors) — via Daring Fireball
Touch ID on a Mac desktop, deconstructed (Jason Snell, Six Colors)
Tip of the Day: Finding Unknown ‘Items’ in Your iCloud Photo Library (Daring Fireball)
Wrapping up “post each day in December” challenge (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 24:01 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Every Container Queries Demo is a Card (Chris Coyier)
Review: Chairman’s Original (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Movies Watched, December 2023 (Khoi Vinh)

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Weekly Links 12.18–12.31

World of Goo 2! (kottke.org)
Just How Rich Were the McCallisters in ‘Home Alone’? (via kottke.org)
Watch the Newly Remastered Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988) on YouTube (kottke.org)
Movies Watched, November 2023 (Khoi Vinh)
Just post (Andy Bell)
Think like a front-end developer (Jeff Bridgforth)
Thoughts on career changes and dramatic moves (Jeff Bridgforth)
Happy birthday CSS (and me) (Jeff Bridgforth)
Thank you to those who helped me to be the CSS developer I am today (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 23:43 (Jeff Bridgforth)
101 Things I Learned as a Web Developer (okay it is only 53 at the moment) (Jeff Bridgforth)
Becoming comfortable with my digital home (Jeff Bridgforth)
Favorite Christmas traditions (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 23:44 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 23:45 (Jeff Bridgforth)
My Obsidian setup (Go Make Things)
Simple web server (Go Make Things)
The elevator pitch for Web Components (Go Make Things)
An example of an HTML Web Component (Go Make Things)
How to get stuff done as a developer with ADHD (Go Make Things)
Vibe Check №30 (Dave Rupert)
Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (Eugene Fedorenko, Wildbit)
adactio.com on Mastodon (Jeremy Keith)
How to Do a Personal Retreat in Obsidian (The Sweet Setup)
How to Use Notion as your Christmas Wishlist (Updated for 2023) (The Sweet Setup)
MacOS Tip: Quick Access to System Information (Daring Fireball)
Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder (Daring Fireball)
The Obsessor (Daring Fireball)
LH units are cool (Piccalilli)
How Do You Vertically Centre an Element in CSS? (Even More) Easily! (CSS { In Real Life })

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